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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:52:16 -0400
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Dear Poundians,

It is with great sadness that I send along the news to Poundians around the globe that
my good friend and colleague Burt Hatlen passed away yesterday afternoon (21 January
2008) at a Bangor, Maine hospital.  As many of you will know, Burt had been undergoing
chemotherapy and was unable to fight off the pneumonia that brought him to the hospital
a week or so ago.

At the time of his death, Burt was surrounded by family, including his wife Virginia and
his daughters Julia and Inger.  Though the family wishes for privacy at the moment, I am
certain that sympathy cards would be appreciated.  For those of you who wish to write,
here is the address: Virginia Nees-Hatlen, 491A College Avenue, Orono, Maine 04473.

Those of you who would like to say something about Burt and his life as a scholar,
editor, conference organizer, friend and promoter of contemporary poets and of younger
scholars may address their comments to me and I’ll make sure that they are presented to
Virginia and his daughters—better yet, such comments may be send to all through this
list.
 
The family will have a private memorial, with a more public event planned for this
summer or fall.  An obituary will be published in the Bangor Daily News tomorrow or the
next day at http://www.bangordailynews.com/; it will include information about Burt's
wishes for memorial donations.

I myself have known Burt for approximately twenty years and am very sad to lose, above
all else, his good humor, his modest but sure way of representing himself and his ideas
about literature, and—above all—his immense knowledge and range in matters pertaining to
modernist and contemporary poetry.  In some important ways, he is responsible for the
way we have been thinking about and discussing modernist and contemporary poetry over
the past couple of decades.

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Dr. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Professor, Department of English
Book Review Editor, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry
University of New Brunswick
Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317
3 Bailey Drive
Fredericton, N.B.
Canada E3B 5A3
Tel.: 506-453-4673
Fax: 506-453-4817
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